Pro-Drilling Group Warns of New Energy Crisis

Americans for American Energy opposes green tech and calls for more domestic drilling.

Gas prices may have come down. But this is no time to celebrate, says a "bipartisan group of state legislators," warning that a new energy crisis is just around the corner. Known as Americans for American Energy (AAE), the group cautions that unless something is done quickly, Americans may soon see double-digit increases in electricity and home heating bills.

Their answer: Drill, baby, drill! That's because AAE is actually a front for the oil, drilling, and nuclear energy interests. Using unrepresentative pro-drilling campaigns like the recent "Stop the War on the Poor" series, the organization has consistently opposed conservation and environmental movements. According to SourceWatch, the group actually received "a three million dollar no-bid contract from the State of Alaska to campaign for oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge."

AEE even ventures as far as to conflate anti-drilling sentiments with Islamic terrorism via "Don't Drill, He Says" slogans featuring photos of Osama bin Laden. Instead the group promotes more domestic fossil energy exploration with a "Clean Energy Portfolio" consisting of the vaguely consequential and unproven clean coal.

So goes AAE's "Drill, Baby, Drill" message. And what about its stance on "Invent, baby, invent," tapping the home-grown cleantech sector, along with the nation's vast solar and wind resources? Not as long as there are more holes to drill.